{"id":85305,"date":"2022-10-03T04:30:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T04:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/paul-chryst-falls-victim-to-a-new-ruthless-way-of-life\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T04:30:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T04:30:43","slug":"paul-chryst-falls-victim-to-a-new-ruthless-way-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/paul-chryst-falls-victim-to-a-new-ruthless-way-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Chryst falls victim to a new, ruthless way of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div wp_automatic_readability=\"164.84081754438\">\n<p>The NFL is supposed to be the shark tank of football, an eat-or-be-eaten cauldron of pressure, a place where job security adheres to the league&#8217;s acronym: Not For Long.  And yet it&#8217;s kind, gentle and patient compared to the current cutthroat world of college football.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the sport where administrators love to talk about things like \u201cstudent-athlete welfare\u201d and building character and teaching life lessons.  Well, here is the current life lesson in college football: everyone and everything is expendable, at any time. <em>We will ditch a conference via covert operations for more money, and we will fire a coach who starts to slip in a heartbeat.  Watch your back.<\/em><\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<p>NFL coaches fired thus far this season: zero.<\/p>\n<p>College coaches fired thus far this season: five.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Frost at Nebraska.  Herm Edwards at Arizona State.  Geoff Collins at Georgia Tech.  And on this particularly bloody Sunday, Karl Dorrell at Colorado and Paul Chryst at Wisconsin.  And the last of those is a shocker.<\/p>\n<p>Chryst is more Wisconsin than cheese curds and bratwurst.  He was born in Madison, spent some of his childhood living a few blocks from Camp Randall Stadium while his dad was an assistant coach, went to school there, was an assistant coach there, and then was a highly successful head coach for seven seasons.  But when the eighth season veered off course, bam.  He was out.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<p>Chryst is 67\u201326 overall, 43\u201318 in the Big Ten, won three Big West division titles and had three top-15 finishes.  But a 2\u20133 start to this season, punctuated by an ugly home loss Saturday to former Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema and Illinois, marked the end.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<div class=\"m-detail--body-item m-detail--body-item-inline\">\n<figure class=\"l-inline tml-image m-detail--tml-image--inline\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" wp_automatic_readability=\"2.5\"><phoenix-picture><a><picture class=\"is-waiting-to-load\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1240px) 700px, (min-width: 675px) 620px, calc(100vw - 40px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_380\/MTkyNzU3NjIzMjkwODY0ODQw\/paul-chryst.webp 380w, https:\/\/www.si.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620\/MTkyNzU3NjIzMjkwODY0ODQw\/paul-chryst.webp 620w, https:\/\/www.si.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1240\/MTkyNzU3NjIzMjkwODY0ODQw\/paul-chryst.webp 1240w, https:\/\/www.si.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_700\/MTkyNzU3NjIzMjkwODY0ODQw\/paul-chryst.webp 700w, https:\/\/www.si.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1400\/MTkyNzU3NjIzMjkwODY0ODQw\/paul-chryst.webp 1400w\"><source sizes=\"(min-width: 1240px) 700px, (min-width: 675px) 620px, calc(100vw - 40px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_380\/MTkyNzU3NjIzMjkwODY0ODQw\/paul-chryst.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.si.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620\/MTkyNzU3NjIzMjkwODY0ODQw\/paul-chryst.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.si.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1240\/MTkyNzU3NjIzMjkwODY0ODQw\/paul-chryst.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/www.si.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_700\/MTkyNzU3NjIzMjkwODY0ODQw\/paul-chryst.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.si.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1400\/MTkyNzU3NjIzMjkwODY0ODQw\/paul-chryst.jpg 1400w\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/phoenix-picture><!-- disableImageMeta is needed to prevent duplicate rendering of the image meta.--><!-- Duplicate rendering can occur because we have moved the image metadata outside of--><!-- the .m-detail-header--container. The original image metadata in tmlImage is needed--><!-- for the InContent detail header which renders when the media size is inline or breakout.--><figcaption wp_automatic_readability=\"5\">\n<p class=\"tml-image--caption\" itemprop=\"caption\">Paul Chryst won three Big Ten West titles and two New Years Six bowls and was a two-time Big Ten coach of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tml-image--attribution\" itemprop=\"author\"><span>Jeff Hanisch\/USA TODAY Sports<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s a cold, cold business, cloaked in rhetorical puffery.  Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh did his part by delivering a few platitudes in the school&#8217;s release announcing Chryst&#8217;s firing: \u201cAfter a heartfelt and authentic conversation with Coach Chryst about what is in the long-term best interest of our football program, I have concluded that now is the time for a change in leadership.  Paul is a man of integrity who loves his players.  I have great respect and admiration for Paul and the legacy of him and his family at the University of Wisconsin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Funny way to demonstrate that respect and admiration, firing him Oct.  2. The annual autumnal administrative panic started to pick up three years ago, and now it&#8217;s reached a new peak.<\/p>\n<p>The in-season firings also make a mockery of what programs preach about commitment and togetherness during the hard winter workouts, the spring practices, the demands that players stay on campus together through the summer.  Commitment and togetherness are disposable if the season starts badly.  The transfer portal beckons, and the coaches are sent packing.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\"\/>\n<p>Then the talk bluntly shifts from thanking the fired guy to getting ahead in recruiting.  The December signing period has become a massive season disruptor\u2014yet another college sports problem sitting there in plain sight, yet going unremedied.  Move signing day to the spring and end the rationalization of in-season firings due to the recruiting calendar.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<p><strong><em>Watch college football live with fuboTV: Start a free trial today!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But, hey, Chryst walks away a very rich man, having been given a share raise to $5.25 million all of a year ago\u2014the latest in a long line of extensions that end up costing a school a fortune when they don&#8217;t pan out .  Per his contract, the buyout is a reported $16.4 million.  The days of pandemic pay cuts and furloughs certainly receded quickly.  Fiscal restraint left college sports a long time ago, and it ain&#8217;t coming back.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all just silly money in the sport at present.  The media rights deals are skyrocketing, the salaries are skyrocketing, the facilities never stop being built and modernized, and now the NIL collectives are kicking into high gear.  And what comes along with that is a desperation to win that is leading to an epidemic of in-season firings.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-3\"\/>\n<p>Every situation is different, and every coaching change has its own nuances.  Nebraska waited too long to fire Frost, then rushed ahead with it even though it could have waited until October and saved itself an additional $7.5 million.  (But why? Silly money. Burn it if you&#8217;ve got it.) It could be argued that Arizona State and Georgia Tech too long as well.  Colorado is in terrible shape, but Dorrell was the Pac-12 Coach of the Year as recently as 2020.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\"\/>\n<p>Wisconsin&#8217;s move is different, more cold-blooded but not without some reasoning behind it.  Interim coach Jim Leonhard, the defensive coordinator, has been a very successful assistant and had his name bandied about for other jobs.  This gives him an in-season audition to see if he&#8217;s head coach material. <\/p>\n<p>And then there is the potential Lance Leipold Hiring Derby scenario.  Leipold, the coach who has gotten Kansas off to a miraculous 5\u20130 start in his second season in the hardest Power 5 job in the country, could be the object of desire at Nebraska.  And if Wisconsin has also set its sights on a guy who has deep ties to the state, well, this could explain the urgency in firing Chryst.<\/p>\n<p>Leipold is a Wisconsin native who was a graduate assistant with the Badgers 30 years ago.  He also was a small-college coaching giant, winning six Division III national championships at Wisconsin-Whitewater.  (Not unlike former Badgers basketball coaching legend Bo Ryan, who won big at the D-III level before getting his star turn in Madison. Remember, athletic directors love trying to find repeatable hiring formulas.)<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-4\"\/>\n<p>The fact that it took Leipold until age 51 to get a shot at an FBS job\u2014and then it was a Buffalo, in the Mid-American Conference\u2014is part of what ails big-time college football.  But he&#8217;s made up for lost time, both there and now at Kansas, and suddenly he&#8217;s the hottest 58-year-old with a 7\u201310 record in his current job on the planet.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-3\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-3\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-3\"\/>\n<p>  It&#8217;s a strange new day when the possibility exists of Nebraska and Wisconsin fighting over the Kansas football coach.  But that might be where we&#8217;re heading.<\/p>\n<p>As for where the sport as a whole is heading?  Deeper into the shark tank.  Someone else will be dismissed next week.  But at least they&#8217;ll say nice things about the freshly fired guy in the release.  It&#8217;s the college football way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More College Football Coverage:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Karl Dorrell Is Out at Colorado.  Now It&#8217;s Auburn&#8217;s Turn.<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2022 The Lane Train Is Rolling at Ole Miss, On and Off the Field<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2022 SI&#8217;s Top 10: Georgia Shows the Top Dawgs Have Some Vulnerability<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sports Illustrated<em> may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/template\" id=\"facebookPixel1103097776498609\">!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function()\n{n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}\n;if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n(function(){\n    fbq('init', '1103097776498609');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    var contentId = 'ci02accefca00024c8';\n    if (contentId !== '') {\n        fbq('track', 'ViewContent', {content_ids: [contentId], content_type: 'product'});\n    }\n})();<\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL is supposed to be the shark tank of football, an eat-or-be-eaten cauldron of pressure, a place where job security adheres to the league&#8217;s acronym: Not For Long. And yet it&#8217;s kind, gentle and patient compared to the current cutthroat world of college football. 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